Naw Gymnasts’ Display
Members of the Royal New Zealand Navy gymnastics squad kept the crowd of 15.000 at the cricket match between New Zealand and a Commonwealth XI entertained and applauding during the lunch interval of the match on Saturday. The team went through a gamut of skills ranging from cutlass swinging to extraordinarily athletic exercises on the trampoline and vaulting horse The cutlasses, which are of the type originally used in hand-to-hand combat were swung around the head and behind the body in a vane'v of natterns
To disprove any nct on th t the cutlasses were for display purposes only, one member of the squad used one -to slice through a piece of wood.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29775, 19 March 1962, Page 12
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116Naw Gymnasts’ Display Press, Volume CI, Issue 29775, 19 March 1962, Page 12
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